at sea
40.15.30 N
014.05.45 W
S\Y Fruits De Mer
24.07.08
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uh-oh. trouble in paradise. we are headed for cascais, portugal. as there was water coming in the engine room through a wee hole. our yanmar 55 hp diesel engine sits atop a 'plinth,' and though i am not 100% certain quite what a plinth is, both of our yanmar units sit on 'em. the plinth is held in place by, i believe, great gobs of 5200 and then there's this wee beadie of salt water beading through it. so 'skip' contacted the delivery company forthwith and word is we turn around and head straight back to the continent. at least we are comparitively kicking ass in terms of the actual sailing bit, though we are actually headed /away/ from our destination. i made 10 knots for a good long while this afternoon and had decided to give my watch relief an extra half an hour sleep. on this vessel, one wakes the watch relief 10-15 min in advance of the handover. though now that i am in the routine, i have been waking early. i actually went to my dog watch last night a full hour early (by mistake). it was fine, though i was slightly less patient with the relief's 'island time' approach to the latest handover. at 620 AM we finished manually pumping the engine bay dry. this only takes a few minutes. no more sleepy-inny, if it's gonna go like that.
not sure what happens when we're in cascais, except that shower, laundry and a trip to super-mercado are in order. as well as, i hope, some new english books. i have nearly exahausted the latest and greatest... 'the last templar,' another undersea-archaeology-meet-fiction-meets-the-bloodline-of-jesus thing. apparently, the templars fleeing europe departed from la rochelle. neat-o.
